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Larissa Volokhonsky (Russian: Лариса Волохонская) was born into a Jewish family in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, on 1 October 1945.After graduating from Leningrad State University with a degree in mathematical linguistics, she worked in the Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok) and travelled extensively in Sakhalin Island and Kamchatka (1968-1973).
The Evangelist John, a miniature from the Ostromir Gospel, mid-11th century. Old East Slavic literature, [1] also known as Old Russian literature, [2] [3] is a collection of literary works of Rus' authors, which includes all the works of ancient Rus' theologians, historians, philosophers, translators, etc., and written in Old East Slavic.
The Diary of a Superfluous Man (Russian: Дневник лишнего человека, Dnevník líshnego chelovéka) is an 1850 novella by the Russian author Ivan Turgenev. It is written in the first person in the form of a diary by a man, Tchulkaturin, who, though only 31 years old, is dying of an unspecified illness and has only a few days ...
1st page of the Novgorod Psalter of c. 1000, the oldest survived Slavic book.. Scholars typically use the term Old Russian literature, in addition to the terms medieval Russian literature and early modern Russian literature, [6] or pre-Petrian literature, [7] to refer to Russian literature until the reforms of Peter the Great, tying literary development to historical periodization.
The Metropol' Almanac is a collection of uncensored texts by famous writers, self published in Samizdat in Moscow in December 1978. [1] The collection was organized by Vasily Aksyonov, and counted with contributions from a number of Soviet writers, such as Fazil Iskander, Andrei Bitov, Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina and Vladimir Vysotsky, and one contribution from abroad, made by John ...
This is a list of fictional countries from published works of fiction (books, films, television series, games, etc.). Fictional works describe all the countries in the following list as located somewhere on the surface of the Earth as opposed to underground, inside the planet, on another world, or during a different "age" of the planet with a different physical geography.
B Portrait Author Notable works Illustration Illustration Isaak Babel (1894–1940) Red Cavalry The Odessa Tales Red Cavalry poster, 1919 Red Cavalry poster, 1920 Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009) The Foothold Forever Nineteen South of the Main Offensive Natalya Baranskaya (1908–2004) A Week Like Any Other Pavel Bazhov (1879–1950) The Malachite Box Commemorative coin featuring Bazhov Bazhov ...
According to the latter, Russia as a whole amounts to one huge Village and "the fate of its wild and poor peasantry is the fate of the country as such." "My novel depicts the life of rural Russia; along with one particular village it is concerned with life of Russia as a whole", Bunin told Odessky Listok newspaper in 1910. [8]